Identity (Largely) Determines Your Future Preferences
Identity is an incredibly strong force in the human psyche, and it manifests itself in all kinds of social sciences contexts: Determining what actions are “best” for us (or our…
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Identity is an incredibly strong force in the human psyche, and it manifests itself in all kinds of social sciences contexts: Determining what actions are “best” for us (or our…
People often read about the worthy successor, or generally axiologically cosmic ideas, and ask: “Okay, Dan, but how to I actually DO something about this?” As it turns out there…
Like it or not we humans share the fate of all forms (individuals, species, substrates): To transform or be destroyed. I suspect we have from 15 to 40 years before…
Given a long enough time horizon, all things (individuals, species, forms) die out completely or transform into something else. Lucretius and the second law of thermodynamics concur here. In this…
This is an interview with Joshua Clymer, a technical AI safety researcher at Redwood Research. Before that, he researched AI threat models and developed evaluations for self-improvement capabilities at METR….
In business, blindly assuming you’ll be profitable is a recipe for bankruptcy. In the outdoors, blindly assuming you’ll find water and shelter is a recipe for death. And yet, many…
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with the brilliant Martin Rees – British cosmologist, astrophysicist, and 60th President of the Royal Society. In 2024, he…
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Peter Singer, one of the most influential moral philosophers of our time, and arguably the most influential philosopher…
This is the first episode in our new Early Experience of AGI series – where we explore the subtle signs of AGI’s rise long before its dominance is declared. This…
This is an interview with Kristian Rönn, author, startup founder, and now CEO of Lucid, and AI hardware governance startup based in San Francisco. In this episode Kristian explores his…